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The Mansabdari system introduced by Akbar was borrowed from the system prevalent in

Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

The instructor's rules were simple. Breathe through your mouth, not your nose; else the mask will fog up. Easier said than done; I got it wrong many a time. But once you fought habit and got the hang of it, the panoramic underwater world revealed itself to you with high-definition clarity.

Led by him, I slowly peered through the mask into what till then was crystal-clear water, shimmering in the sunlight. I saw pebbles, sand and my fluid shadow. I was in Nemo's universe. Sea cucumbers, sea anemone, clown fish, star fish, sea horses, parrot fish, butterfly fish and a bevy of colourful salt water fish swam past. A shoal of canary-yellow fish did a merry dance and another with vibrant blue fish followed it. They were oblivious to the snorkelers who struggled to take in the sight of a world so beautiful, so colourful, and resist opening their mouth wide in amazement; the tube would fall off!

The writer saw all of the following except:

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

Accepting that one form
P-of price discrimination is okay opens
Q-the door to all other forms
R-of discrimination as well

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

Usually the climate in the Northern parts of India is cooler (from) the Southern parts.

A plane mirror produces a magnification of

Junk e-mail is also called ______

Improve the given sentence if necessary.

Heavy work has been thrusted on me.

Select the antonym of

conception